Turkey ordered the arrest of 295 serving military personnel on Friday, the prosecutor’s office said, accusing them of links to the network of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says orchestrated a 2016 attempted coup. Those facing detention included three colonels, eight majors and 10 lieutenants, with around half of the suspects being in the army and the remainder in other military forces including the navy and air force, the statement said. The prosecutor’s office ...

A Turkish prosecutor on Wednesday sought life in prison for 16 suspects including philanthropist and businessman Osman Kavala on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Kavala, who has been in custody for more than a year, is accused of links to 2013 anti-government protests and the failed 2016 coup. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has openly accused Kavala of “financing the terrorists” during the anti-government protests that ...

Turkish police on Tuesday launched raids to detain over 300 people, including military personnel, suspected of ties to a group blamed for a 2016 coup bid, state media reported.Prosecutors in Turkey’s three biggest provinces -- Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir -- issued arrest warrants for 324 people as part of different probes into followers of US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, the private DHA and the Anadolu state news agency said.Turkey accuses Gulen of ordering the abortive bid to ...

Hundreds of people were placed in custody in Turkey Sunday after police raids on the 20th anniversary of the capture of militant Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, state media reported.Police detained 735 people accused of having links to or supporting Kurdish militants in 156 operations carried out on Friday, state news agency Anadolu said, quoting the interior ministry.During the raids, police found guns, rifles, ammunition and explosive material including improvised explosive devices, Anadolu ...

Turkey’s president criticized the US on Tuesday over delays in establishing a buffer zone in Syria, saying that if Washington won’t contribute to the effort, Ankara will do it alone. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Donald Trump last month discussed setting up a safe zone east of the Euphrates River in Syria. Turkey has demanded Syrian Kurdish militia withdraw from there and Erdogan has been seeking logistical and financial assistance from Washington for that. Syria’s main ...

Turkey has maintained low-level contact with the Syrian government, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, even though Ankara has supported rebels who fought for years to topple President Bashar al-Assad. Erdogan has described Assad as a terrorist and said several times during Syria’s eight-year conflict that the Syrian leader must go. But with support from Russia and Iran, Assad has recaptured large parts of Syria from rebel fighters, driving them from most of their former strongholds. ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and offered his support after a Venezuelan opposition leader declared himself interim president, a spokesman for the Turkish president said on Thursday. “Our president called and extended Turkey’s support to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and said ‘My brother Maduro! Stand tall, we stand by you!’,” Ibrahim Kalin said on Twitter. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Moscow for Syria-focused talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as their governments bargain over zones of influence in the war-torn country.The leaders share strong opposition of US military presence in Syria, seeing it as an obstacle to their clout. They both have called for America’s pullout and welcomed President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops.Although Russia and Turkey have teamed up with Iran to ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on companies to lower their prices and cut profits if necessary, to help consumers through a difficult economic time. Erdogan also said in a speech in Ankara that US President Donald Trump told him in a call on Sunday, that Washington would take measures on its tariffs on Turkish steel imports. ALSO READ: Turkey hikes gas, power prices by as much as 14 pct as lira crisis deepens Last Thursday, a Reuters poll found thatTurkey’s economy ...

Turkey is ready to take over security in Syria’s Manbij, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told US President Donald Trump in a telephone call on Sunday, the Turkish presidency said in a statement. Erdogan said an attack that left four Americans dead last week in Manbij was an act of provocation aimed at affecting Trump’s decision last month to withdraw US troops from Syria. The attack occurred nearly a month after Trump confounded his own national security team with the surprise ...